Can you guess what song these lyrics are from?

[galvo]

'Hard Travellin' by the great Woody Guthrie.

Did you bop along to this?:

'Once you told me long ago
 To the prom with me you'd go.
 Now you've changed your mind it seems,
 Someone else will hold my dreams."

[Darthvadar]

There's an elderly gentleman in a nursing home that I visit every Sunday, and he sings this to me everytime he sees me.... It's..

'A White Sports Coat, and a Pink Carnation'.....

Try this...


A little maiden climbed an old man’s knees—

Begged for a story: "Do uncle, please!

Why are you single, why live alone?

Have you no babies, have you no home?"

"I had a sweetheart, years, years ago,

Where she is now, pet, you will soon know;

[galvo]

"After The Ball Is Over'. I love it and sing it when I'm wallowing in maudlin sentimentality!

This one also brings tears to my eyes:

"The years creep slowly by, ......
The snow is on the grass again
The sun's low down the sky, ......
The frost gleams where the flowers have been
But the heart throbs on as warmly now
As when the summer days were nigh
Oh, the sun can never dip so low
A-down affection's cloudless sky."

[Darthvadar]

Lorena???...

Another one that Jimmy sings to me'.....


A lady doesn't leave her escort
It isn't fair, it isn't nice
A lady doesn't wander all over the room
And blow on some other guy's dice.
So let's keep the party polite
Never get out of my sight
Stick with me baby, I'm the fellow you came in with

[galvo]

You're good Darth. "Luck Be a Lady" sung by ole blue eyes.

This should  get you thinking:

" It's the one red rose a soldier knows,
  It's the work of the Master's hand,
  "Midst the War's great curse
  Stands the Red Cross Nurse,
  She's ... .... .. .. .... .... ".

[Darthvadar]

The Rose of No-Man's Land... Gawd, it's years since I've heard that one...

Try this...

Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I'd see you in the tavern
We'd smile at one another and we'd say

[nursewratchet]

I can't keep up.  I try to stump, but Darth gets them every time.  I can't figure out any of these.  John Prine, by the way, awesome.  How about:

If I needed you
Would you come to me

[galvo]

Nursey, That's the lovely Emmylou Harris "If I Needed You" and, Darth,
"Those Were The Days My Friend'. Weren't they ever! And we did think they'd never end. My dear old dad used to sing "The Rose of NML" when he'd had a few.

Nursey' I reckon this will slow Datrh down:

"One day I watched a flock of whippoor wills,
 as they flew to their homes across the hills;
 they were merrily flying, to the south I knew
 and I couldn't help crying; "Take me there with you!"

[Darthvadar]

Better luck next time, Galvo...

'Pick me up and lay me down in dear old Dixieland'... My strange music loving friend told me that one!....

Try....

Hear me now
Oh thou bleak and unbearable world,
Thou art base and debauched as can be;
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee!


P.S... Sorry Nursie!.....

[galvo]

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

Man of La Mancha (I Don Quixote)

"Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line."

[Darthvadar]

Erm.... 'Johnny, Get your gun'.....

How about this?.....

From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes

[Mizar]

 THE MONSTER MASH

My Turn -  Now Muriel Plays Piano, Every Friday at the Hollywood
               And they Brought Me down to see Her and they Asked Me if I would,
               Do a little Number and I sang with all My Might and She said, " Tell Me, are you a Christian Child?" and I said, " Ma'am, I
               am Tonight."

[galvo]

Darth, "Johnny Get Your Gun" - Rubbish!! Please try harder!!!

Mizar, thats "Walking in Memphis."

I still need an answer, please.

[Mizar]

 
    Over There  - George M. Cohan

    am I right?


   and We won't be back, till, it's over, over there.

[galvo]

Well done, Mizar.

Hit us with one.

[Mizar]

 but We, would eat Kraft Dinner, of course We would, We'd just Eat more!

[galvo]

"I Had a Million Dollars" by Bare Naked Ladies. Anybody seen them perform

"They were summoned from the hillside
They were called in from the glen,
And the country found them ready
At the stirring call for men.
Let no tears add to their hardships
As the soldiers pass along,
And although your heart is breaking
Make it sing this cheery song"

[kristina]

Songwriter Ivor Novello 1914 "Keep the Home Fires Burning".

also called "Till the Boys Come Home":

Remembrance Day.

[galvo]

Correct!

Hurl one at me.

[kristina]

A few lines from a very cheeky song:

...He asked me how many jobs I'd had before.
He nearly had a heart attack when I answered, four.
Four jobs in twenty years, oh, this can never be...

(another version of the same line is: four jobs and twenty years old, this can never be...)

[galvo]

Donovan's "Gold Watch Blues".

She is watching by the poplars
Colinette with the sea blue eyes
She is watching and longing and waiting
Where the long white roadway lies
And a song stirs in the silence
As the wind in the boughs above
She listens and starts and trembles
'Tis the first little song of love

[texasstyle]

Omgosh Darth! My father used to have the 45 record of "A white sport coat' (I'm in a blue, blue mood)

[galvo]

I'm waiting!

[Darthvadar]

Galvo...

Is it 'Roses of Picardy'...

[galvo]

It is indeed, Darth. Well done!